Scenography 1

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
203SCMA1	exam	10	8 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 178 to 228 hours of self-study	English	winter

Subject guarantor

Jan ŠTĚPÁNEK

Name of lecturer(s)

Jan FRIČ, Jan ŠTĚPÁNEK

Department

The subject provides Department of Stage Design

Studio lessons for the first year in the scope of 8 hours per week.

Scenery teaching develops students' talent and conceptual thinking. First-semester instruction is based on mastery of reading techniques, associative reading, and interpretation of classical archaic text, music, and poetry. This is followed by an analysis of the basic emotional attributes of the text and the rendering of their interpretive spatial equivalent by the student's social cultural and historical resources. The student frames the interpretive and dramatic underpinnings of the scenographic work and orients the preliminary selection of his/her subsequent specific master's project. The student actively handles acquired cultural and interpretive stereotypes in such a way that he/she is subsequently able to consciously define himself/herself in relation to them. Furthermore, the student can collaborate in the conception and creation of student productions in the rehearsal rooms of DAMU and the DISK theatre.

In terms of the approach to student learning, scenography is perceived as a complex interpretation-oriented discipline related to consciously influencing the perception of space and interrelationships within it. The student learns to analyze and define the perceptual parameters and characteristics of a space and, subsequently, modifies them to enable a targeted comprehensive change in the perception of a potential recipient/group. In this sense, scenography is a discipline that focuses beyond the classical theatre space on conceptual design, dramaturgy of space, installation, and visual communication in space/environment.

Learning outcomes

Preparatory tasks: Analysis of the interpretative possibilities of the archaic text/poem, analysis and definition of the synopsis/own concept/possible scenario. Visual illustration material. Culminating output in the form of an exhibition, spatial installation, short theatrical piece, scenography, and documentary output with textual accompaniment.

The student's relationship to the design - each design is a fully-fledged artistic artifact.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None.

Literature

Literature concerning own program and assigned tasks, especially in the field of the scenography of drama, opera, musical theatre, movement theatre and exhibition installations.

Aronson, Arnold (ed.): The Routledge Companion to Scenography. Routledge, 2020.

Barbieri, Donatella. Costume in Performance: Materiality, Culture, and the Body. Bloomsbury, 2017.

Hann, Rachel: Beyond Scenography. Routledge, 2019.

Hannah, Dorita and Harsløf Olav: Performance Design. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008.

McKinney, Joslin and Phillip Butterworth: The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

McKinney, Joslin and Scott Palmer: Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design. Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2017.

Wiens, Birgit E. Contemporary Scenography: Practices in German Theatre, Arts and Design. Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2019.

Brockett Oscar Gross et al. Making the Scene : A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States. 2nd printing ed. Tobin Theatre Arts Fund 2012.

Jones Robert Edmond. The Dramatic Imagination : Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre. Routledge 2004.

Adler Phoebe. Behind the Scenes Contemporary Set Design. Black Dog Pub 2012.

Taylor Clifton. Color & Light : Navigating Color Mixing in the Midst of an Led Revolution a Handbook for Lighting Designers. Quite Specific Media a Division of Silman-James Press 2019.

Hann Rachel. Beyond Scenography. Routledge Is an Imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2019.

Evaluation methods and criteria

During the semester, independent work in studios and a minimum of 80% attendance at tutorials are required. The condition for completion of the semester is a successful assignment, which includes a model (1:20), free artwork - 5 pcs, drawing/painting DIN A 1, 12 pcs of stage designs and visualizations DIN A 3, storyboard.

Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025: